New constraints on deformation, slip rate, and timing of the most recent earthquake on the West Tahoe-Dollar Point fault, Lake Tahoe Basin, California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2 A, 2009, Pages 499-519

  Brothers, Daniel S ^a   Kent, Graham M ^a   Driscoll, Neal W ^a   Smith, Shane B ^b   Karlin, Robert ^b   Dingler, Jeffrey A ^a   Harding, Alistair J ^a   Seitz, Gordon G ^c   Babcock, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; COREGISTERED; COSEISMIC SLIPS; EARTHQUAKE POTENTIAL; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; HIGH INTENSITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAKE TAHOE; LAKE TAHOE BASIN; LONG TERM RECORDS; MOST RECENT EARTHQUAKES; NORMAL FAULTS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PALEOEARTHQUAKE; PISTON CORES; RADAR PULSE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RUBICON; SLIP RATES; VERTICAL DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; TIME MEASUREMENT;

LAKES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT SLIP; HISTORICAL RECORD; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SLIP RATE;

CALIFORNIA; LAKE TAHOE BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649996427     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080135     Document Type: Article

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